16. The grievances between Inoue and the Meng family

His hunch was right, the light reflected from the moon shone on the mouth of the cave.

The entrance to the cave was unguarded, and the "Tomb Robbery Squadron" easily walked in. Chiba Saburo tells Inoue that this is the cave they entered earlier. The strange thing is that the location of the cave entrance has obviously changed, but the scene in front of him is exactly the same as what he saw at the time, as if there is some force that has moved the entire cave and the cave entrance.

Inoue nodded, it seems that what the book says is true, it has the ability to turn fiction into reality and create its own landscape, and that mirror must be in it, which is really good.

The light borrowed from the moon was used for illumination, as if they were in the daylight of the outside world.

All the members of the "evil squad" were in the center of the bottom of the cave, holding a strange ceremony, or a rehearsal of a certain formation. They were circling around two shiny objects, and their movements were getting faster and faster, and in a moment they changed from walking slowly to running wildly.

It was rare for Inoue to see such a bizarre scene, so he wanted to finish the ceremony before making the next move. Who knows, after watching from the side for a while, that Chiba Saburo suddenly stood up, shouted "I'm here", jumped out of cover, and ran in the direction of the "Evil Squad".

Although the person hiding in front of him grabbed Chiba Saburo in time, the movement he made had already alarmed the people below. The group of people who were still running fast just now. As if the pause button had been pressed, he suddenly stopped his body and stopped in place.

The details after this, Inoue Kawaichi did not say, probably because he did not know.

All he knew was that a vicious battle ensued between the two sides, with heavy casualties, but Inoue finally saw two mirrors, one large and one small, as he wished. The big one is the Haoxin mirror they were looking for on this trip, which is a double-sided mirror with a convex front and a concave back; The small one is the wooden mirror mastered by Inoue Kawaichi, which looks like an ordinary copper mirror.

Because they did not know the benefits of these two mirrors at that time, they added some additional losses in order to take them: the two soldiers who went to get the wooden mirrors became wood; The three soldiers who were close to Haoxin Mirror went crazy on the spot and almost broke out again, but fortunately, the first squad leader decisively ordered to shoot.

They did not dare to come any closer, so they had to hide from a distance and discuss countermeasures.

In the end, Ken Yamamoto, the leader of the second team, suggested that instead of rushing to get the mirrors, he would look elsewhere in the cave, and maybe he would find the containers that were originally used to hold the two mirrors.

This is a reliable suggestion, Inoue Hiroshi immediately ordered the surviving officers and soldiers to leave those corpses alone, and continue to use their ability to rob tombs and dig pits, even if they dig three feet into the ground, they must find those things.

Eventually, they found a piece of black, opaque cloth and a metal suitcase of exquisite workmanship. In this metal suitcase, there are two silk books, also written in tadpole script, and a few schematic drawings are drawn. Although he didn't have the dictionary with him, Inoue couldn't recognize the contents on it, but he could basically be sure that it was the instructions for using the Haoxin Mirror and the Five Elements Mirror.

After all, there was a picture, and they studied it carefully for a while, and finally came to the judgment that the black cloth was used to wrap the small mirror, and the large mirror needed to be placed in the suitcase.

This black cloth is easy to do, just throw it over to cover the wooden mirror, and then send someone to get it, but who has the ability to put the big mirror in the suitcase.

Let's solve one by one.

Because the two mirrors are so close together, they have to be separated first.

It was still Ken Yamamoto's idea, and they used guns, grenades and even mortars to blow up, and finally separated the two mirrors.

After that, Ken Yamamoto found two more soldiers from his subordinates, asked them to tie the ends of the black cloth with ropes, crawled forward, climbed in front of the wooden mirror, blew up the pit with the mortar, tried to cover the black cloth, and then successfully retrieved it.

The wooden mirror is done, but they still don't have anything about the Haoxin mirror. They also used the same method, trying, and fastened the open box to the top of the Haoxin mirror, but they couldn't close it. For this last blow, they lost five more excellent Imperial soldiers, but they still failed to succeed.

Inoue finally decided not to try again for the time being, and waited until he went back to study and understand.

He left Ken Yamamoto and his team in the cave, and then took the remaining thirty people and went back first with a wooden mirror.

Who knows, as soon as they returned to the station, they fell ill en masse and couldn't even get out of bed.

Inoue was worried that his deadline was approaching, so he became selfish. He lay on the bed and struggled to write ten letters to his family, writing the function and importance of the wooden mirror and silk book in it with the family's unique encryption technology. Literally, he just kept reminiscing about the good times he had with his family, like the words of a dying man.

As for the wooden mirror and silk book, he entrusted it to an old friend who was about to return to China and asked him to help bring it back to his family. In order to avoid accidents, he falsely claimed to his friend that it was a personal item for his wife, and that no one should touch it, and that he could not open it casually. Even if it is her wife, she can only take it out after she is sure that he is no longer alive and has passed the first seven.

Anyway, there are so many bronze mirrors in his hand, and no one dares to ask him casually to take out the wooden mirrors for everyone to identify.

In order to protect the secret of this wooden mirror, Inoue also made a cruel decision, he did not send anyone to pick up Ken Yamamoto, and even planned to kill all the more than 30 people who came back with him.

But things suddenly took a turn for the better, and there was a traitor who found a very wise local doctor, that is, my grandfather, Meng Ye. It is said that this man is not only highly skilled in medicine, but also never asks about politics and treats patients equally.

Since there was hope, Inoue of course refused to give up and readily agreed.

After Divine Doctor Meng examined him preliminarily, a surprised expression appeared on his face: "I see that your pulse should be an invasion of evil qi, has it experienced something unusual recently?" ”

When Inoue heard that there was a play, he hurriedly waved his hand to let everyone else go out first, and then briefly recounted his experience in the cave. He said he didn't expect that someone like him, who was far away from the mirror, would also be in trouble.

Inoue originally thought that since this Meng Divine Doctor could identify this "special" evil qi and was a "hometown person" from the burial place of the ancient mirrors, he should naturally have heard of these ancient mirrors and planned to discuss them with him.

But Doctor Meng said that he was just a little familiar with Zhou Yi, and what he said about the evil qi actually meant that there was the qi of the five elements from the outside world, which invaded his body, and did not involve the theory of ghosts and gods, and he was even more unheard of for those spiritual ancient mirrors, and once thought that his condition was aggravated and began to talk nonsense.

Inoue wasted half a day of talking, but he played the piano to the cow, and he couldn't help but be disappointed, so he asked him if he had any way to crack these evil spirits.

Doctor Meng was a little hesitant, saying that he only knew the ordinary Five Elements Conditioning Technique, but if Inoue Bowen really provoked the evil thing in the mountain, it might not be enough to use his medicine to recuperate. His ancestors had also passed on some ways to break these things, but they were too indecent, and he was afraid that this official would not be able to bear it, so he didn't dare to suggest it.

Inoue Hiroshi rolled his eyes: "I'm a soldier of the Great Japanese Empire, I'm not even afraid of death, will I be afraid of your methods of pretending to be gods, but it doesn't matter." ”

Doctor Meng wiped the sweat from his forehead, and was encouraged several times by Inoue before he whispered his method: soak the patient's whole body in a liquid mixed with the blood of the three animals, namely pigs, cows, and sheep, and then pour human feces for three days and nine meals in a row, forcing out all the evil qi that had invaded the six senses from the body and transferring it to the blood of the three animals. Of course, during this period, the medicine cannot be stopped, and it needs to be mixed with feces and fed.

This method is not only indecent, it is simply an insult to the Imperial Japanese Army.

If it were someone else, hearing this method, it might be possible for people to directly pull Doctor Meng out and kill him. But Inoue was skeptical of this method, at least he didn't get angry on the spot, but thoughtfully.

He certainly wasn't going to make the first test himself. Anyway, he has no shortage of guinea pigs to "test the medicine".

Inoue chose six of his fallen men, and then began the experiment. In order to prevent Doctor Meng from doing tricks, he only asked Doctor Meng to prescribe medicine, but he asked others to do the medicine and dispense the medicine, ensuring that the medicine for the six people was the same. Then, he asked three of them to carry out the ...... according to the local method that Doctor Meng said

As a result, it only took five days for the test results to come out. The three additional soldiers who used the "dirt method" disappeared from all their illnesses, except for those who were particularly hungry. There is nothing else wrong with it. The three soldiers who did not use the "soil method" had a constant recurrence of their illness, sometimes good and sometimes bad.

Inoue is a decisive man, and with a wave of his hand, he treats all according to the "soil method".

In this way, Doctor Meng became a myth again. Although no one dared to say how he treated the imperial army, in order to treat the imperial army, he slaughtered so many pigs, cattle and sheep at once, and this mystery alone was enough to make him famous again.

Inoue was not an ungrateful person, not only did he take special care and protection of Dr. Meng's family, but also often invited Dr. Meng to his residence to discuss ancient Chinese culture and the doctrine of Zhou Yi.

After going back and forth, these two "cultural people" in hostile countries turned out to be inseparable friends. Inoue even wanted Dr. Meng's family to join Japanese nationality, but he refused, saying that he was afraid of being blamed by his ancestors, and his confidant was precious in his confidant, and he received it.

Inoue didn't know the old feud between China and Japan, and it was inconvenient to force it, but at the same time, he cherished this friendship even more. In order to show his sincerity and trust, he even recruited Doctor Meng as his staff and team doctor to explore the secrets and whereabouts of the ancient bronze mirror.

Regarding his proposal, Doctor Meng resolutely disagreed at first, saying that in this war, he had always insisted on not helping each other, and now how could he support the hostile side in turn.

Inoue didn't mind his "outspokenness", but trusted him more, and finally had to threaten the lives of Doctor Meng's family, so he reluctantly agreed. While agreeing, Doctor Meng put forward an additional condition: he must not let others know that he has joined the Japanese army, and even in front of his colleagues, he must always wear a mask.

These are trivial things, and Inoue can understand them, so he readily agreed.

Soon, Doctor Meng changed back into Meng Ye and became a member of the "Tomb Robbery Squadron" reorganized by Inoue Knowledge. In order to let him go down with him, Inoue Erudum also deliberately directed a scene, which made Meng Ye accidentally blow up a Chinese family and force him to hand in a "letter of surrender".

Of course, because of the importance of the matter, although Inoue asked Meng Ye to help find the other four-sided five-element mirrors, he did not reveal the contents of the silk book to him.

In the blink of an eye, more than a year has passed, and Inoue's well-informed "Tomb Robbery Squadron" has checked the ancient city of Qi on the ground of Shandong, but has never seen a five-element mirror again. At this time, the Japanese army also began to lose on the frontal battlefield, and the Chinese and Japanese sides entered a painful tug-of-war, and the Japanese army became more and more nervous. In the end, not only were the three treasure search teams exhausted, but Inoue's "tomb robbery squadron" was compressed into a "mirror search team", and only sixteen people remained, including five Chinese, one doctor, and four Jinxiao captains.

The strong contrast made Inoue Hiroshi dissatisfied with the Japanese military department that did not understand and support him, and he did not dare to vent in front of his compatriots, so he had to go to Meng Ye, his Chinese sworn friend, iron buddy, and go to his house from time to time to drink and eat.

What he didn't expect was that the person he trusted most in this country and in this city was brewing a conspiracy against him and the Chinese treasures he kept for the time being.

In the autumn of 1942, Inoue Hiroshi's "Mirror Hunting Team" came to Kaifeng, the capital of Henan Province at that time. After inspecting the cultural relics sorted out by the local Japanese army, they unexpectedly found an "earthen mirror".

At the same time as this "earthen mirror", there is also a hand-drawn topographic map of mountains and rivers. When Inoue inadvertently put this topographic map on the metal box containing the Haoxin mirror, a strange scene happened.

On this topographic map, 5 small bright spots appear, green, white, red, black, and yellow. Looking at these small highlights, Inoue thought of the legendary Green Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu and Huang Lin.

He asked his subordinates to find a map of China, compared the outlines of the two maps, and roughly confirmed, sure enough, the yellow bright spot representing the soil was probably in Kaifeng, and the green color representing the wood was out of China, in the direction of Japan......

These two things work together, and they can actually find the location of the five-element mirror.

What's even more peculiar is that when he points his finger at a certain bright spot, the map zooms in, clicks, doubles......

Inoue was so excited that he wrote a letter to his family that night, telling him of his discovery and irrepressible joy.

No one expected that the letter would become a farewell letter for him and his family.

Three days later, Inoue Kawaichi and his men were poisoned, but the miracle doctor Meng Ye was missing. And the treasures they had hoarded were also carried out of the city without being noticed.